As the demand for visual content increases, you’ll need to use tools that empower you to express your creativity and develop gorgeous visuals that resonate with your audience. Visage is the perfect tool to get started.

This “Diploma in E-Business” course is a comprehensive resource for marketers, business owners, and advertisers who would like to get the most out of their digital marketing efforts. You’ll learn things like the fundamentals of promoting your business online, using various Google-powered tools, and how to track and make sense of the vast amounts of data available to you.

This SEO tool will generate all possible combinations of two separate lists of search phrases. Find new ways to promote your website and reach your audience, when you broaden your keyword horizons. Use these phrases to modify and create new content, as well as to optimize title tags, URL’s and internal linking structure. For a new insight into your keyword prospects generate combinations to kick start the brainstorming process.

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While there are a slew of CRM systems available on the market today, there is one that we regularly work with that integrates more than several of the tools mentioned. Team Support is a cloud hosted B2B CRM solution that offers many of the social tools needed as well as a powerful and secure API that can be custom designed for any business need.

It’s designed to be very visual and has “Automated Insights” which are insights that are picked up by Facebook Analytics AI and are shown to you on top of the Overview page. This feature is still in beta but works pretty well so far.

The free version of Open Site Explorer is incredibly resourceful. Use it to analyze links and quickly identify which inbound links are leading to your site. Not only does this show you where your most valuable pages are, but it helps you make future insight-based decisions.

QuickSprout helps you to learn about sites similar to yours so that you can figure out how to out-do them in search rankings. Just enter the URL of your competitor and click on the “Login with Google” button to get started for free.

You create a website, blog, newsletter or podcast, etc. You use it to provide FREE information that has real value to your prospective clients, whilst offering them the opportunity to purchase goods, services (or both), which are closely linked to the information you give away.

Depending on the platform there are many ways and plugins to do that, I suggest you search Google using “how to add social media buttons to xxxxxx” – replace xxxxx with the platform your website is based.

In its original form, contextual marketing can be understood as a type of online marketing that in involved in discovering new opportunities all through the web and making funnels that lead back to your website. Not at all like web-based social networking in any case, this kind of online marketing happens outside of organizations. Some of the tactics of contextual networking are-

There are countless email marketing services out there to choose from and plenty of reviews on each. They all have their own benefits and drawbacks depending on your specific needs. ExactTarget, Vertical Response, Marketo, and Silverpop (just to name a few) are all incredibly powerful paid platforms.

The entire set of classes in this content marketing course lasts roughy 35 minutes. You’ll learn how to get inside the mind of your market and build content that interests them in a short period of time. Allowing you to get back to running your business!

This new social media marketing specialization from Northwestern University is designed for business owners, executives and marketing professionals who want to develop a social media strategy to grow their businesses.

This integration can fall into two categories. First, businesses that use multiple forms of internet advertising should coordinate them to ensure that one consistent message is being sent to target consumers. Using email advertising, social media, PPC and video ads in tandem makes it hard for people to miss the message.

18. Claim Your Google+ Local Page – Claiming and optimizing a Google+ Local page is key to showing up in Google Maps and Google’s local search results. Plus, this page provides users with important information like your phone number, operating hours, and ratings and reviews that they use when deciding whether to use your business.

Great post and amazing list Kevan! There are a number of tools here that I am looking forward to trying out. A few that I am using now are Insightly for my CRM, and PicMonkey for graphics. Sometimes I like using PicMonkey and Canva together. Sharing this with my network and have a terrific Tuesday my friend! 🙂

Very impressive and comprehensive list you’ve compiled here, Pawan! If I could make a suggestion, check out DrumUp-employee advocacy platform, social media management and content curation and scheduling tool. It also has a built-in analytics feature for your social media activity and employee advocacy program. If you find it interesting, do consider adding it to you list 🙂

We started with a spreadsheet of 30 under-the-radar courses and reached out to every course instructor, asking for temporary access to their course, so we could get a comprehensive overview of each one.

11. Crazy Egg: Sixty minutes from decision to the first live results – that’s a fast implementation! We love the advanced insights from heat maps and scroll maps of how people interact with our website that Google Analytics cannot give us. If you’re looking to increase conversion rates, this is probably a good investment.

Some companies can be portrayed by customers negatively as some consumers lack trust online due to the amount of advertising that appears on websites and social media that can be considered frauds. This can affect their image and reputation and make them out to look like a dishonest brand.